One additional AC Factory Pic
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Topic: One additional AC Factory Pic
Posted By: GBACBFan
Subject: One additional AC Factory Pic
Date Posted: 11 May 2011 at 10:49pm
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P&H electric monorail hoist carrying a piece of equipment at the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. There's an operator in the cab, as well as two other men on the floor level.
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Posted By: se iowa picker
Date Posted: 11 May 2011 at 10:54pm
| That is cool . I love those old pics like that. Kinda takes you back to a more prosperous and less stressful time. |
Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 12 May 2011 at 1:37am
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I don't know, riding that monorail could be kind of stressful, at least at the start.
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Posted By: KGood
Date Posted: 12 May 2011 at 6:42am
| Were is osha? He doesn't have his safety harness on.LOL! |
Posted By: John (C-IL)
Date Posted: 12 May 2011 at 7:30am
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Yeah and I don't think those fedoras would qualify as hard hats. In a factory today the operator would be on the floor and the lift would be controlled by one of those RC units.
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Posted By: Larry(OH)
Date Posted: 12 May 2011 at 5:20pm
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just imagine how warm it would have been up in the celing area!! ------------- '40 WC puller,'50 WD puller,'50 M puller '65 770 Ollie *ALLIS EXPRESS contact* I can explain it to you, BUT I cannot understand it for you!! |
Posted By: Allen Dilg
Date Posted: 12 May 2011 at 10:41pm
| Hello GBACBFAN Back in o5 when we were planning the GOTO I was fortunate to acquire 200' side rail and 2 22' sliding beams with trollies from the factory. Plan on sandblasting and paint then hang it in my barn. |
Posted By: DREAM
Date Posted: 12 May 2011 at 10:56pm
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That's pretty old. Looks like a DC powered system. They didn't even have hanging pendant control stations back then. Just had big drum switches to control the speed of the DC motors. That old stuff was tough though. I have worked on a Shaw crane that is in the power house at Tallulah falls hydro station. It was built in 1912, and they still use it today. 70 ton main hoist with 10 ton auxilliary hook. Most of that stuff was taken out and replaced because they wanted to upgrade, not because it wore out.
Hard to believe that most cranes today have Variable frequency AC drives on them, and are controlled by radio control units with transmitters not much larger than the one for your TV set. Thanks for sharing. ------------- I didn't do it! It was a short, fat, tall, skinny guy that looked like me! |